Once it’s installed, click the icon in your browser toolbar to make sure it’s turned on.

11. Mute Group Conversations That Are Blowing Up Your Notifications

Let’s say one of your group conversations is getting lively, but you’re at an event and can’t participate/respond. The constant notifications can get annoying/rude/interruptive really quickly.

Don’t just let the flood of messages drown your inbox. Mute them, then go back to the chat later to catch up.

To do it:

In the offending message thread, hit the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner.

Choose Mute conversation to stop getting notifications about it.

12. Switch Your News Feed Back to the ‘Most Recent’ View

The dreaded algorithms have changed the way we take in our social media feeds. However, on Facebook, you can go back to the good ol’ “most recent” lineup – where posts display in chronological order without any regard for their popularity or supposed relevance.

On a desktop, go to the left sidebar to News Feed.

Click the horizontal ellipsis (the three dots).

Click Most Recent.

13. Save Links to Read Later

A common scenario: You’re scrolling through your feed quickly before the work day begins. You see two or three links some of your peers shared that look like really good reads, but you don’t have time right now.

The answer? Save them to read later!

Click the ellipsis icon in the top right corner of the post/link you want to save.

Click Save link.

To access your saved items on desktop, go to the left-hand sidebar and find Saved under Explore. Or just navigate to https://facebook.com/saved.

Once you start saving a bunch of content, you might want to organize it. Luckily, Facebook now has a handy feature where you can sort your saved items into collections.

This is a great place to save and organize all those interesting marketing articles you see on your feed!

Hack Your Way to a Better Facebook Experience

Some of these Facebook tricks are fun or silly, and some are downright useful.